It’s not just developer Larian who is benefiting from the enormous success of Baldur’s Gate 3.
Baldur’s Gate 3 not only conquers the hearts of role-playing game fans, but also makes the holders of the Dungeons & Dragons license rich. Hasbro, the parent company of Wizards of the Coast, has secured the impressive sum of raised around $90 million.
Despite an overall difficult year in which the company suffered a 15 percent decline in sales, Baldur’s Gate 3 was a huge success in Hasbro’s portfolio.
Im Financial report 2023 The management of Hasbro underlined the triumphant success of Baldur’s Gate 3 with visible enthusiasm. They also expect that the role-playing masterpiece will continue to represent a steady source of income in the following years.
BG3 paves the way for more D&D games
Furthermore, Chris Cocks, CEO of Hasbro, has indicated that Baldur’s Gate 3 is just the beginning of a series of D&D based video games
Video games will clearly give the D&D business a big boost. Baldur’s Gate 3 is just the first of several new video gameswhich are coming out in the next five to ten years and which I think will continue to push the franchise forward.
Whether there is also a Baldur’s Gate 4 among these D&D games currently seems at least unlikely. The creators of BG3, Larian Studios, have already started pre-production on their next project, about which little is known so far.
Larian CEO Swen Vincke had recently piqued fans’ curiosity by hinting that the next game will not be what many expect
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It will take a while until there is real, solid information about the Belgians’ next project. Vincke is currently writing the plot, but is already full of anticipation:
I’m really excited to see where this goes and wanted to share my excitement with you. It will be quite a while before we talk about it.
